College Station residents have been unified and clear in their preferences. You want our community to remain a great place to live, work and play, and to maintain our strong neighborhoods, distinct districts and great opportunities. To achieve these and other goals, the city has identified a number of new ideas, including a renewed commitment to long-range planning, innovative public-private partnerships, streets that help connect people and places through multiple means, and respect for the limits and constraints of our natural features and resources.

Due in part to the city’s past planning efforts, College Station finds itself atop several “best of” lists from such recognized sources as Forbes, Money and Kiplinger magazines. Likewise, many of the city’s planning efforts have been acknowledged as exemplary by our peers. Most recently, our planning program was cited by the Texas Chapter of the American Planning Association, and the Bicycle, Pedestrian, and Greenways Master Plan was recognized as one of the best planning efforts in the entire state. The future should be no less successful — provided we all continue to work together to develop new ideas for a stronger future while planning to make our community the best it truly can be.